🦋🪰🐝 Here's a cool study from last year you may have missed. IBP post-doc Dr. Graham Montgomery and co-authors assemble what may be the largest species-level time-series database for insects yet to test some important ecological hypotheses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Look at this guy 🥔🪶 American Woodcock in Bryant Park, 3.23.2026

All the woodpeckers and flickers on my block this morning #birds

Common Yellowthroats are on the move! Observers with Indiana Audubon's Echoes of the Night Project recorded nocturnal flight calls made by these migrating warblers near Bloomington on the evening March 20th. (Many bird species travel at night during migration.) 🪶

Big Congrats to our winner @ginkgogoes.bsky.social !

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Common Grackle! Congrats to our winner! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

🪶Yay Spring!

When we're stuck in front of the computer for too long our bird brains go weird places. 🪶

Birds in green! 🪶

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Greater Roadrunner! Congrats to our winner! We are away from our computer this week but you'll get a personailzed congrats when we return. Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

Answers to yesterday's "Olde Bird Names" quiz.🪶

More fun with bird names! 🪶

🪶 When banding birds with bitey beaks and grabby feet, like this Såli (Micronesian Starling), it helps to keep them busy with items other than your fingers. Here a pen and a nerf dart come in handy. MAPS banding season on Rota CNMI is underway! birdpop.org/pages/pa...

🪶The "rictal bristles" around this Micronesian Rufous Fantail's beak act like a catcher's mitt to help the bird catch insects in its mouth. This species hunts insects in the understory of tropical woodlands and its large eyes help it see in the shady conditions. 1/2

Back to setting up a banding crew on Rota, where only perfect birds exist. Såli (Micronesian Starling) and Na'abak (Micronesian Rufous Fantail), banded and released on site, for @instbirdpop.bsky.social 🪶🧪👩🏼‍⚕️

Can you tell how old this sapsucker is by looking at this photo? IBP biologist Peter Pyle can! In our latest blog post he uses his feather aging skills to determine if a vagrant Williamson's Sapsucker in the Bay Area is a repeat winter visitor. Read it here: https://bit.ly/4rpBHep 🪶

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Cinnamon Teal! Nobody guessed it but Nicolas Demers#BitOBirdwas in the ballpark! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Our comms specialist saw her FOY (first-of-the-year) Osprey in western Colorado today. Have you seen any FOY migratory birds yet? 🪶

The answers to yesterday's Ye Olde Bird Names quiz 🪶

Cormies are so beautiful close up. The first time I really saw a double-crested's eyes, I think I gasped, because they are so rarely presented as pretty birds. You look this good, you can have all the fish.

Another edition of folknames for birds 🪶

This one was definitely tricky! No winner this week- we'll try to be a little nicer next week! You all are just so good at this, we have to test your limits 🪶

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Lark Bunting! Congrats to our winner! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

🪶Hope you have some fun this weekend!

🪶New bioacoustics research from IBP! Read about it in our latest blog post and download the open access paper here=> https://bit.ly/4sixzOt

The answers to yesterday's post 🪶

Long term bird banding tells us which #birds are present & pop. & demography trends. Since 2021 we've banded birds in the #Baraboo Hills. Data go to @instbirdpop.bsky.social supporting knowledge of local & regional birds. ***Birds handled by trained researchers w/ federal Bird Banding Lab permit

Turns out penguins do have knees. They're just not where you think they ought to be. (Can you tell I'm trying to distract you from our collective sense of impending doom by putting out the most random content imaginable?!)

🪶Some bird fun for Monday

🪶 Nobody guessed it! We chose this photo because it was interesting how much gray and buff was on the body coverts. Our banding queen Dani K. says "sometimes birds have lighter tipping to their feathers when they grow in, e.g., robins or starlings...1/2"

🪶 The answer to this week's #BitOBird quiz is....Northern Cardinal! Congrats to our winner! Don't worry if you missed it this week, we'll post another quiz next Monday at 11am ET/10am CT/9am MT/8am PT.

Here's the clue for this week's #BitOBird game! Can you ID this bird from just this little bit? (Note: we stick to North American birds, if not we’ll tell you.) 1st to reply w/ the correct answer gets bird nerd bragging rights. If you're stumped, we'll post the answer in 2 hrs 🪶

🪶 Make good choices friends!

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My story for @biographic.bsky.social on the aftermath of HPAI in Northern Gannett colonies was picked up by Smithsonian Magazine! A nice thing to see while resurfacing briefly during another round of kid sick days...

Here's this winter's full cast of characters! Lots of new intergrade N. Flickers at my backyard feeders this year, not so many returning from previous years, though there are a few. "Yellow" has been an especially unusual standout. See reply for what makes these birds special. 🎨🪶🧪 #BirdArt #SciArt

🪶A stunning portait of a Costa's Hummingbird by Mick Thompson. These gem-like birds live in the fast lane w/ a resting ❤️ rate of 500-900 beats per min & 200-300 breaths per min. To get a sense of how fast 500 beats or 300 breaths per min is, play w/ this online metronome: www.onlinemetronome.app

I remember first hearing about Wisdom when I started working with seabirds. One of my coworkers had worked on Midway and seen her. She was barely 50 then. That she has survived for two more decades, laid more eggs, fledged more chicks, never ceases to give me hope in the resilience of nature.

One of my favorite things to read every year is that Wisdom has returned to Midway. Have a great season, Queen.

75 years old! 🪶🪶 Wisdom the Laysan Albatross has returned to Midway Atoll. medium.com/discourse/sh...

“A Puffin aged 34 has died after being washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach in stormy weather”. (The longevity record for Puffin is 42 years 21 days, a Skomer bird ringed as an adult and seen alive - colour rings read - in 2019). #Seabirds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

I say Coopers, but I'm just the comms specialist. Paging @tinylongwing.bsky.social 🪶

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